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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolutionby Richard Dawkins, Yan WongISBN 061861916X (0-618-61916-X)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution'Book summary:Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.
The Ancestor's Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls concestors, those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider's knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins's knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life's diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years.
Dawkins sees his journey with its reverse chronology as cast in the form of an epic pilgrimage from the present to the past [and] all roads lead to the origin of life. It is, to my mind, a sensible and perfectly acceptable approach although some might complain about going against the grain of evolution. The great benefit for the general reader is that it begins with the more familiar present and the animals nearest and dearest to usour immediate human ancestors. And then it delves back into the more remote and less familiar past with its droves of lesser known and extinct fossil forms. The whole pilgrimage is divided into 40 tales, each based around a group of organisms and discusses their role in the overall story. Genetic, morphological and fossil evidence is all taken into account and illustrated with a wealth of photos and drawings of living and fossils forms, evolutionary and distributional charts and maps through time, providing a visual compliment and complement to the text. The design also allows Dawkins to make numerous running comments and characteristic asides. There are also numerous references and a good index.-- Douglas Palmer [via]
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Bold Science : Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our Worldby Ted AntonISBN 0716735121 (0-7167-3512-1)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bold Science : Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World'Book summary:Science is at a crossroads. Cold War-era easy money for grand-scale projects has become a thing of the past. And yet, in this new environment, science seems to be reinvigorating itself, moving away from an overly specialized, bureaucratic mindset to a more streamlined, multidisciplinary approach.
In a number of fields, innovative teams led by gifted researchers are combining imaginative methods with inexpensive tools to chip away at the previously impenetrable secrets of the body, the mind, the planet, and the universe. In the process, they are demonstrating the same kind of inspired drive toward discovery that led Galileo to invent the telescope.
Bold Science examines this "scientific new wave" by profiling the work of some remarkable researchers: gene hunter Craig Venter, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, immunologist Polly Matzinger, cosmologist Saul Perlmutter, ecologist Gretchen Daily, and evolutionist Carl Woese. Headstrong, iconoclastic, visionary, these scientists have risen to the pinnacles of their fields at a pivotal moment-and are producing amazing breakthroughs with bold, sometimes controversial methods.
In exploring their scientific lives and times, Bold Science shows readers why we are at the dawning of a new era of understanding ourselves and our universe. [via]
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Bones of Contention: The Archaeopteryx Scandalsby Paul ChambersISBN 0719560543 (0-7195-6054-3)
Hardcover, John Murray
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Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiologyby Donald R. ProtheroISBN 0073661708 (0-07-366170-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology'Book summary:This is the first text to combine both paleontology and paleobiology. Traditional textbooks treat these separately, despite the recent trend to combine them in teaching. It bridges the gap between purely theoretical paleobiology and purely descriptive invertebrate paleontology books. The text is targeted at undergraduate geology and biology majors, with the emphasis on organisms, rather than dead objects to be described and catalogued. Current ideas from modern biology, ecology, population genetics, and many other concepts will be applied to the study of the fossil record. [via]
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British Mesozoic Fossilsby British Museum (Natural History), C. P. CastellISBN 0565057030 (0-565-05703-0)
Hardcover, The Museum
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British Palaeozoic Fossilsby British Museum (Natural History)ISBN 0565056247 (0-565-05624-7)
Hardcover, The Museum
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The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Lifeby Paul Chambers, Tim HainesISBN 155407181X (1-55407-181-X)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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"Comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia to prehistoric animals... lifelike detail... this easily readable book should appeal to dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages."
-Science NewsThe Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. The book's concise, jargon-free text and full color illustrations bring the primordial world to vivid photo-realistic life. In-depth profiles of 112 kinds of beasts cover physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat and behavior. Throughout, "fascinating fact" sidebars offer additional bits of "dinotrivia." But there is more than dinosaurs here. Readers will find creatures from triobites to early human beings. At the heart of the book are 350 richly detailed and lifelike color illustrations -- accompanied by comprehensive text -- which are the result of pioneering work by the Emmy award-winning creative team at Framestore CFC. Using animation, graphic effects and filmmaking, they recreated awe-inspiring prehistoric creatures and the world they lived in. These images are now reproduced to thrill readers.
The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life was published to accompany two BBC TV prime-time programs, Life Before Dinosaurs and Walking with Life, both part of the Discovery Channel's award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs series.
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The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Lifeby Tim Haines, Paul ChambersISBN 1554071259 (1-55407-125-9)
Hardcover, Firefly Books, Limited
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"Comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia to prehistoric animals... lifelike detail... this easily readable book should appeal to dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages."
-Science NewsThe Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. The book's concise, jargon-free text and full color illustrations bring the primordial world to vivid photo-realistic life. In-depth profiles of 112 kinds of beasts cover physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat and behavior. Throughout, "fascinating fact" sidebars offer additional bits of "dinotrivia." But there is more than dinosaurs here. Readers will find creatures from triobites to early human beings. At the heart of the book are 350 richly detailed and lifelike color illustrations -- accompanied by comprehensive text -- which are the result of pioneering work by the Emmy award-winning creative team at Framestore CFC. Using animation, graphic effects and filmmaking, they recreated awe-inspiring prehistoric creatures and the world they lived in. These images are now reproduced to thrill readers.
The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life was published to accompany two BBC TV prime-time programs, Life Before Dinosaurs and Walking with Life, both part of the Discovery Channel's award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs series.
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Cradle of Mankindby Mohamed AminISBN 0879511796 (0-87951-179-6)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Dinosaurby David Norman, Angela Milner, Colin KeatesISBN 0756606470 (0-7566-0647-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaur'Book summary:The official companion to A&E's prestigious international television series hosted by Walter Cronkite is the definitive account of the "terrible lizards" that once roamed our planet. Comprehensive in its coverage and handsomely illustrated, Dinosaur was written by one of the world's leading experts on dinosaurs. It vividly conveys the time scale, evolution and lifestyles of these remarkable creatures andion. 100 full-color and 20 black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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- Dinosaur: ISBN 078945808X (0-7894-5808-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub - Dinosaur: ISBN 0671874721 (0-671-87472-1)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference - Dinosaur!: ISBN 0132181401 (0-13-218140-1)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada - Dinosaur: ISBN 0394822536 (0-394-82253-6)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Dinosaur: ISBN 0394922530 (0-394-92253-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Dinosaur: ISBN 0756606470 (0-7566-0647-0)
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The Dinosaur Heresiesby Robert T. BakkerISBN 0806522607 (0-8065-2260-7)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp - The Dinosaur Heresies: ISBN 0688042872 (0-688-04287-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Dinosaur Heresies : New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs: ISBN 0806522607 (0-8065-2260-7)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Dinosaur Hunters: A Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric Worldby Deborah CadburyISBN 1857029593 (1-85702-959-3)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Dinosaur Safari Guide: Tracking North America's Prehistoric Pastby Vincenzo CostaISBN 0896582310 (0-89658-231-0)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Dinosaur Skeletons and Other Prehistoric Animalsby Jinny Johnson, Steve Kirk, Elizabeth GrayISBN 0895776782 (0-89577-678-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introductionby David NormanISBN 0860204588 (0-86020-458-8)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Timesby Adrienne MayorISBN 0691089779 (0-691-08977-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Fossil Legends Of The First Americansby Adrienne MayorISBN 0691113459 (0-691-11345-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Fossilsby David J. Ward, Cyril Alexander WalkerISBN 1564580717 (1-56458-071-7)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Fossils:a Study in Evolution: A Study in Evolutionby Joy O.I. SpoczynskaISBN 0874710618 (0-87471-061-8)
Hardcover, Rowman and Littlefield
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Fossils and Evolutionby T. S. KempISBN 0198504241 (0-19-850424-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Fossils in Colourby John F. KirkaldyISBN 0713705949 (0-7137-0594-9)
Hardcover, Blandford Press
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Fossils: The Key to the Pastby Richard ForteyISBN 1588340481 (1-58834-048-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fossils: The Key to the Past'Book summary:This thorough introduction to the world of paleontology has been completely revised and updated, reflecting changes in the ways that fossils are viewed and interpreted. Using the fluid writing style that made Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution such a success, Dr. Fortey brings the study of fossils into the 21st-century. [via]
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and Peopleby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0802139434 (0-8021-3943-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammalsby Donald R. Prothero, Robert M. SchochISBN 0801871352 (0-8018-7135-2)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Hot Blooded Dinosaursby Adrian DesmondISBN 0803737556 (0-8037-3755-6)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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How Do We Know Dinosaurs Existed?by Mike BentonISBN 0811438783 (0-8114-3878-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fossilsby Giovanni Pinna, Jay HyamsISBN 081602149X (0-8160-2149-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Immense Journeyby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0809436515 (0-8094-3651-5)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Lifeby Henry GeeISBN 0801487137 (0-8014-8713-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Jurassic ParkISBN 0793527775 (0-7935-2777-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993, when Jurassic Park hit theatres, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get a hold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic storyline with additional scenes, dialogue and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes, Amazon.com [via]
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Jurassic Park Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793526892 (0-7935-2689-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park Piano Solos'Book summary:Arrangements for the intermediate-advanced player. Includes the themes by the great John Williams written for the blockbuster movie. Besides the main theme this folio includes: Journey to the Island
* Welcome to Jurassic Park
* My Friend, the Brachiosaurus
* A Tree for My Bed
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Life on a Young Planet: the First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earthby Andrew H. KnollISBN 0691120293 (0-691-12029-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on a Young Planet: the First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth'Book summary:Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.
The very latest discoveries in paleontology--many of them made by the author and his students--are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. Innovations in biology have helped shape our air and oceans, and, just as surely, environmental change has influenced the course of evolution, repeatedly closing off opportunities for some species while opening avenues for others.
Readers go into the field to confront fossils, enter the lab to discern the inner workings of cells, and alight on Mars to ask how our terrestrial experience can guide exploration for life beyond our planet. Along the way, Knoll brings us up-to-date on some of science's hottest questions, from the oldest fossils and claims of life beyond the Earth to the hypothesis of global glaciation and Knoll's own unifying concept of ''permissive ecology.''
In laying bare Earth's deepest biological roots, Life on a Young Planet helps us understand our own place in the universe--and our responsibility as stewards of a world four billion years in the making.
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Life through Timeby Harold L. LevinISBN 0697050343 (0-697-05034-3)
Hardcover, W. C. Brown Co
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Lowly Origin: Where, When, And Why Our Ancestors First Stood Upby Jonathan KingdonISBN 0691120285 (0-691-12028-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Macroevolution: Pattern and Processby Steven M. StanleyISBN 080185735X (0-8018-5735-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macroevolution: Pattern and Process'Book summary:In Macroevolution, Steven Stanley addresses, from a paleobiologist's perspective, the question of whether punctuated equilibria or gradualism offers the best account of the history of life. Punctuated equilibria, a view popularized by Stephen Jay Gould among others, holds that species remain evolutionarily static for long periods of time and undergo substantial genetic changes and develop new, primarily adaptive, strategies during speciation. In contrast, gradualism views large-scale changes as the result of continual and successive small-scale changes. Coming down on the side of those who favor the model of punctuated equilibria, Stanley argues that only "quantum speciation" (speciation that is rapid and radically divergent) can explain the story of life revealed in the fossil record; macroevolutionary trends, he contends, can be explained by selection among species and, to a lesser extent, by phylogenetic drift and directed speciation.
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Mammal Evolution: An Illustrated Guideby M.R. Long, R.J.G. SavageISBN 081601194X (0-8160-1194-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File Publications
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National Geographic Prehistoric Mammalsby Alan Turner, Mauricio AntonISBN 0792269977 (0-7922-6997-7)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
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The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolutionby Dougal DixonISBN 0881623016 (0-88162-301-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A New Look at the Dinosaursby Alan CharigISBN 0816011672 (0-8160-1167-2)
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Parque Jurasico/Jurassic Parkby Michael CrichtonISBN 8401325218 (84-01-32521-8)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parque Jurasico/Jurassic Park'Book summary:En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambicion de comercializar la ingenieria genetica. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultaran vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas... Parque Jurasico, la novela mas celebre de Michael Crichton y una de las mas leidas en los ultimos anos, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una pelicula que se convirtio en el gran acontecimiento cinematografico de 1993 y en el origen del fenomeno de masas llamado ""dinomania"". [via]
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Pollen Analysisby P.D. Moore, J.A. Webb, Margaret E. CollinsonISBN 0865428956 (0-86542-895-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Raptor Redby Robert T. BakkerISBN 0785799729 (0-7857-9972-9)
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The Riddle of the Dinosaurby John Noble WilfordISBN 039474392X (0-394-74392-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Secrets of the Sands: The Revelations of Egypt's Everlasting Oasisby Harry ThurstonISBN 1559707038 (1-55970-703-8)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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A Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill BrysonISBN 1417665483 (1-4176-6548-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'Book summary:One of the worlds most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the worlds most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
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Hardcover, Random House Large Print - A Short History of Nearly Everything: ISBN 0767908171 (0-7679-0817-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition: ISBN 0767923227 (0-7679-2322-7)
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Fossilsby David Ward, Cyril WalkerISBN 0789489848 (0-7894-8984-8)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know Itby Gabrielle WalkerISBN 1400051258 (1-4000-5125-8)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soupby Christopher Wills, Jeffrey BadaISBN 0738204935 (0-7382-0493-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup'Book summary:Can you create life with just a taser and a bowl of soup? Most likely not, unless you give yourself a few hundred million years to experiment. Biologist Christopher Wills and marine chemist Jeffrey Bada show off the fruits of research looking for signs of life elsewhere and clues to the origin of terrestrial organisms in The Spark of Life. The writing is clear and every concept is explained well--Wills's reputation for translating scientific understanding into plain English is well-deserved, and Bada's insider status with NASA provides insight not found elsewhere. They examine the field of theories, from extraterrestrial origin to life spilling out of hydrothermal vents to deep-crust genesis, and find strengths and weaknesses in them all. Their own partisan stance has it that life began on the surface of our planet through Darwinian-like processes operating on primitive self-replicating chemicals. Though their arguments are fairly compelling, the jury is still out, and will probably remain out indefinitely; science often balks at providing explanations for unique events, preferring to stick to general principles. Still, we can see that the problem is valuable because the search for an answer turns up all sorts of unexpected scientific finds: RNA-catalyzed reactions, Martian environmental problems, and natural selection of nonliving chemicals all showed up amid these debates. While it won't settle the issues, we can be glad that The Spark of Life explains them so clearly and primes us for the research still to come. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Scienceby Deborah CadburyISBN 0805067728 (0-8050-6772-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Time Exposure: A Photographic Record of the Dinosaur Ageby Dougal Dixon, Jane BurtonISBN 082530217X (0-8253-0217-X)
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Time Exposure: A Photographic Record of the Dinosaur Ageby Jane BurtonISBN 0825303877 (0-8253-0387-7)
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Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongoliaby Michael NovacekISBN 0374278806 (0-374-27880-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongoliaby Michael NovacekISBN 0374528764 (0-374-52876-4)
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolutionby Richard ForteyISBN 0375706216 (0-375-70621-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution'Book summary:With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, but Trilobite! is sure to receive even greater acclaim. Whereas Life took the reader on a whistle-stop tour of evolution from start to present--a huge undertaking that necessarily granted little space to each time period or taxonomic group--Trilobite! sees Fortey indulging in a whole book about his overriding paleontological passion, the long extinct and enigmatic creatures of the title. The result is a joy.
Trilobites--woodlicelike creatures that dominated the world's oceans long before the time of the dinosaurs--are, arguably, the most beautiful animals that have ever been chipped out of the fossil record. Fortey certainly seems to think so. His enthusiastic, almost loving explanations of the anatomy, ecology, and long evolutionary history of these fascinating vanished creatures carry the reader on an inspirational journey into the Earth's distant past. But the book is much more than a technical treatise on trilobites. We learn about Fortey himself, his formative years as an amateur then professional paleontologist, about his much-loved teachers and colleagues, and above all, about that strange but addictive pastime known as science. You may not find arthropods as charming as Fortey does, but you will not fail to be charmed by the author. A delightful read. --Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought over t Rex Ever Foundby Steve FifferISBN 0716794624 (0-7167-9462-4)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought over t Rex Ever Found'Book summary:How much is that T. Rex in the window? Journalist Steve Fiffer looks at the most contentious paleontological find ever in Tyrannosaurus Sue. This scientific, sociological, and legal study is entertaining and insightful, highlighting the personalities of the researchers, attorneys, and tribal and federal authorities who struggled for years over the ownership rights to the best-preserved Rex specimen yet found. From its discovery in South Dakota in 1990 by Susan Hendrickson and Peter Larson through the tortuous court cases to decide its fate to the final auction at Sotheby's, Fiffer finds just the right words to describe the action, a difficult task given the conflicting reports of contesting witnesses. Professional jealousy and academic elitism (or concern for valuable scientific material and Indian property rights) led to accusations of illegal collecting and the seizure of the skeleton by federal agents shortly after its move to Larson's Black Hills Institute. Suits, countersuits, and indictments escalated the struggle into an all-out war with vast sums of money and professional reputations at stake. In the end, Larson was imprisoned as an example to illegal collectors despite his sincere belief that he had worked within the law, and Sue was awarded to property owner Maurice Williams and purchased for $8 million by Chicago's Field Museum with the assistance of the McDonald's and Disney corporations. Tyrannosaurus Sue is a riveting tale, well-written and just unsettling enough to provoke thought and discussion. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasiaby Pat Vickers RichISBN 0909674361 (0-909674-36-1)
Hardcover, Pioneer Design Studio in cooperation with the Monash University Publications Committee
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Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagoniaby Lowell Dingus, Luis M. ChiappeISBN 0743212118 (0-7432-1211-8)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Walking With Dinosaurs: 3-D Bookwith 3-D Glassesby Dorling Kindersley, IncISBN 0789452073 (0-7894-5207-3)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking With Dinosaurs: 3-D Bookwith 3-D Glasses'Book summary:A long, long, time ago, before television, before cars, and airplanes, and bicycles.... Before sailing ships and pirates, knights and castles, bows and arrows.... Before humans first set foot on Earth.... Before grass and flowers grew, before the first birds flew through the ancient skies, the savage, untamed world was ruled by the most astonishing creatures: the dinosaurs.
Using the state-of-the-art computer graphics and natural history photography from the Discovery Channel's awesome television production "Walking with Dinosaurs," this unique book offers children of all ages the chance to come face-to-face with these prehistoric creatures. All young readers have to do is put on the enclosed 3-D glasses and watch these amazing images leap off the page. You'll feel like you can reach out and touch them! [via]
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Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural Historyby Timothy D. Haines, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0789451875 (0-7894-5187-5)
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Walking with Prehistoric Beasts: A Prehistoric Safariby Timothy D. Haines, Daren Horley, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0789478293 (0-7894-7829-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking with Prehistoric Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari'Book summary:Walking with Beasts is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the hugely successful Walking with Dinosaurs and fully deserves to be just as successful. Subtitled A Prehistoric Safari, it takes the reader on a journey through the wildlife parks of the last 65 million years since the demise of the dinosaurs.
While everyone has heard of the many different kinds of dinosaurs, how many people have heard of the indricotheres, chalicotheres, dinotheres or even our own ancestors the plesiadapiforms? Hopefully, after the showing of the BBC TV series Walking with Beasts and this superb book from Tim Haines, we might have a better idea about the life and times of our own mammal relatives and ancestors. Designed for the general reader, the story follows a mixture of chronology and environmental themes from the "New Dawn" following the demise of the dinosaurs, when mammals were just beginning to find their feet again, through to "Whale Killer", describing when mammals first took to life in the oceans and evolved awesome top predators such as the 18m Basilosaurus. The strange extinct mammals such as the indricotheres figure in the "Land of the Giants" and our own human story is told, culminating in the Ice Age and the question of our ancestors' hand in extinctions. The computer-generated images produced by Daren Horley's team are absolutely stunning and are, if anything, better than those in Walking with Dinosaurs. The animals look especially convincing in the still photos, which appear on every page. The pictures are so good that it will be hard to convince younger children that they are not real. Walking with Beasts should be on everyone's shopping list. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 039330700X (0-393-30700-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History'Book summary:The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection of animals unlike any other. Just how unlike is the subject of Gould's book.
Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled, and analyzed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.
Burgess Shale animals have been called a "paleontological Rorschach test," and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in Crucible of Creation. Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent--as in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title--has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's Rare Earth hypothesis. And Gould's loving, detailed exposition of the labor it took to understand the Burgess Shale remains one of the best explanations of scientific work around. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Dinopark/Jurassic Parkby Michael CrichtonISBN 3426600218 (3-426-60021-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinopark/Jurassic Park'Book summary:verfilmt von Steven King als Jurassic Park Stellen sie sich volgendes vor:Sie kaufen für hundert Dollar eine Tageskarte,setzen mit dem Boot auf eine kleine Insel über und verbringen einen ganzen Tag in der Urzeit.Subtropische Vegetation,Erlebnisbahnen,die sie über die ganze Insel fahren,hin zu fünfzehn verschiedene Arten von echten,lebenden Dinosauriern,riesigen und winzigen,gefährlichen und harmlosen.Ein Traum?In Dinopark wird er únheimliche Wirklichkeit.Oder jedenfalls beinahe..... [via]
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Geschichte Der Steinzeitby Hermann Muller-KarpeISBN 3406053564 (3-406-05356-4)
Hardcover, Beck
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Parque Jurasico / Jurassic Parkby Michael Crichton, DANIEL YAGOLKOLWSKIISBN 840149236X (84-01-49236-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parque Jurasico / Jurassic Park'Book summary:En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambicion de comercializar la ingenieria genetica. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultaran vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas... Parque Jurasico, la novela mas celebre de Michael Crichton y una de las mas leidas en los ultimos anos, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una pelicula que se convirtio en el gran acontecimiento cinematografico de 1993 y en el origen del fenomeno de masas llamado ""dinomania"". [via]
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Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bryson BillISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everything'Book summary:One of the worlds best-selling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. Its a dazzling quest, to understand what that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, &how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since. Description in Spanish: Bill Bryson se describe como un viajero renuente, pero ni siquiera cuando está en su casa, en la seguridad de su estudio, puede contener esa curiosidad que siente por el mundo que le rodea. En Una breve historia de casi todo intenta entender qué ocurrió entre la Gran Explosión y el surgimiento de la civilización, cómo pasamos de la nada a lo ahora somos. [via]
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